User blog comment:Cpt Crimson/DmC sales way lower than dmc4's/@comment-134861-20130203050602/@comment-134861-20130203203550

"Why do people keep saying that DmC Sparda is "mediocre?"" Because he accomplished nothing besides getting an angel pregnant. He did not fight for humanity, and in fact nothing suggests that he did anything even as impressive as Poison or Bob Barbas did. He's imprisoned by Drekavacs, for crying out loud. All we are told is that he was Mundus's friend.

"There's still some potential legendary themes and all that, but when you look at the classic DMC," No, there's not. There was no legendry even explored in this game--all that was important was the politics of Dante and Vergil being Nephilim. There's no hint of great prophecies or rituals brewing in the background that will one day come to pass. Vergil and Dante by dint of birth have the ability to kill Mundus, Mundus attacks, they get revenge, the end. Sparda going around doing things in the other games was solely so that Dante and Vergil did have something to act against.

Also, if you're trying to claim that DMC3 didn't explore Dante and Vergil as characters, but only Sons of Sparda, you're sadly mistaken. That was why the villain tried to get them there, but their own character motivations were almost totally unrelated to it. Vergil himself is described as completely forsaking any trace of his father's legacy.

"Sparda was just this all-powerful dude who did anything and everything." More importantly to my point, his actions set up a lot of the prophecies and stuff that Dante would one day deal with. He's basically the DMC equivalent of Halo's Forerunner -- sure, he's stupidly powerful, but his actions set up a stage that the protagonist gets to explore and unravel the mystery of.

"Like Steamygoreng says, it's great that in DmC they actuall decided to make Dante and Vergil the stars, instead of everything being solely about how they're the "Sons of Sparda."" ....did you play the game? The only reason the villain attacks is that they are the sons of sparda. Besides Dante's improbably quick leap to not giving a damn to suddenly wanting to be the champion of humanity at the end with no character development at all, he and Vergil's entire motivation is to get revenge on Mundus for what he did because they were Sparda's sons.

On the lines of character development, actually, he seems to suddenly develop a crush on Kat after spending exactly no time with her, whereas Vergil, who has worked with her for years, is shown as not giving a damn about her all of a sudden in the last scene pretty much just so that they can make him a boss fight. The character motivations are all over the place, and...most professional game reviewers have remarked on it to. The story is not a strength of this game.